Category : Middle East

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 30 November 2016|29 Safar 1438
France calls for emergency UN Security Council session as battles rage for control of Syria’s second city.
Up to 20,000 people have fled eastern Aleppo over the past 72 hours as Syrian government ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 30 November 2016| 29 Safar 1438
Jimmy Carter called for a UN Security Council resolution that would reaffirm the illegality of all Israeli settlements beyond the 1967 borders.
Former US President Jimmy Carter called on outgoing President Barack ...

Cii Radio| Sabera Sheik Essop|30 November 2016| 29 Safar 1438
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged all Muslims to defend the Palestinian cause and said it is their obligation to protect Jerusalem.
Speaking in Istanbul at a parliamentary symposium on Jerusalem, ...

Cii Radio| Sabera Sheik Essop| 29 November 2016| 28 Safar 1438
A seven-year-old Syrian girl, whose depictions of daily life in Aleppo have gained a large Twitter following, has sent harrowing messages describing the bombardment of her house as government forces ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 28 November 2016| 27 Safar 1438
Aleppo, Syria – East Aleppo’s ‘only hospital’ struggles with damaged equipment, lack of space and an insufficient amount of supplies.
The “last hospital” in east Aleppo is a grim site. The building ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 25 November 2016| 24 Safar 1438
As the Myanmar authorities are subjecting the Rohingya Muslim minority to collective punishment, thousands of refugees who have made it across the border to Bangladesh in desperate need of humanitarian assistance ...

Cii Radio| Sabera Sheik Essop| 25 November 2016| 24 Safar 1438
Netanyahu threatens those responsible for the fires with “full legal force” as smoke transforms northern city’s skyline.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have been fleeing wildfires in the northern city of ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 24 November 2016| 23 Safar 1438
France has accused Syria and its allies of using political uncertainty in the US to launch “total war” against opposition-held areas in the country and called for new sanctions on Bashar ...